Come on, fatty. Hit the deck. Move those saddlebags. One more pull-up. It’s the litany of the personal trainer—the mean one, the ex-military drill sergeant who bullies clients through the exercises. It’s the kind of training popularized on The Biggest …
Current Occupation: writer/editor Former Occupation: college composition teacher Contact information: Michael Constantine McConnell writes poems, prose, and palindromes and is a devout student of the 20-button Anglo concertina, upright bass, piano, and autoharp. Experimental Word Forms Editor for Farrago’s Wainscot, …
Current Occupation: Planner for a metropolitan transit agency and part time adjunct in the school of urban planning in the same city. Former Occupation: Various full and part time faculty positions and before grad school I was an electrician because …
Current Occupation: Marketing writer for IBM and widely published but narrowly paid poet Former Occupation: Same thing, different places for many years, plus an assortment of odd jobs Contact Information: Harry Calhoun’s articles, literary essays, book reviews and poems have …
Fact: Somebody gets paid to talk to angels. Fact: That somebody need not be a church leader, trained and/or certified in any way. Fact: That same person who talks to angels believes you are guided and watched at all times …
Current Occupation: cofounder, contributor, Gobshite Quarterly Former Occupations: linguistics, classrooms, boiler-rooms, libraries Contact Information: M.F. McAuliffe is writing about art, M.F. McAuliffe had forgotten that camembert was so different from brie, M.F. McAuliffe has had 4 cats, M.F. McAuliffe has …
Current Occupation: PhD in Clinical and Research Psychology, Utah State University. Former Occupation: Weber County Mental Health, 1961-1991. Senior therapist on the youth team. Specialized in ADD (Attention Deficit Disorder) in children. Contact Information: Mike Berger is bright, articulate, handsome …
Current Occupation: Whatever they pay me for in the theater, plus some after-school science instruction; they don’t pay me enough. Former Occupation: Tour guide, bookstore clerk, library shelver, house painter, political canvasser, fine arts camp counselor Contact Information: Alex was …
Current Occupation: Starving Artist and Published Author Former Occupation: Paid Intellectual Contact Information: I am a writer and an artist by default, currently living in Washington, DC. My childhood was spent in what I later learned to be a hick …
Current Occupation: Dogwalking CEO Former Occupation: You name it, I’ve probably done it. Contact Information: http://www.susiedeford.com/ # # # Berserk Balloon Ballet For Moe Big Moe won’t give me a break. Boxer bulldozer strut, pant, and rush ready for the …
Ah, Portland. City of roses, evergreen trees, bike lanes. It’s also the land of the coffee bean. From the city’s first real espresso machine (installed at La Panier in the early 1980s), the Almighty Bean has surged and blossomed into …